Based on the NEW YORK TIMES' interactive feature on presidential candidates' playlists, whoever wins the 2020 election should appoint KAMALA HARRIS and KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND co-ministers of pop, and BETO O'ROURKE and DONALD TRUMP should be given jurisdiction over the WHITE HOUSE man cave, where the soundtrack is all-male all-rock all the time and there are long, earnest discussions about things like this strange NYT MAGAZINE feature about NEIL YOUNG, who tells his interviewer, "I really wish this interview hadn’t happened," and the interviewer says, "I feel horrible," and if you make it through all 75 or so paragraphs about digital compression, "melodic-depressive" music and the role of SILICON VALLEY in musical culture, you'll probably feel that way, too. The can't-we-all-get-along award goes to PETE BUTTIGIEG, whose playlist is especially loaded, the Times reports, with songs that "also make appearances on other candidates' playlists." Presidential candidates, it turns out, really really like PANIC! AT THE DISCO, LIZZO, DEMI LOVATO, ARETHA FRANKLIN and FLORENCE & THE MACHINE (as well as IMAGINE DRAGONS and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, both of whom somehow eluded Mayor Pete's notice). Or maybe they just like rousing songs about empowerment and high hopes. Go figure. Also, candidates appear to like the music of the '50s, '60s and '70s (Trump, ELIZABETH WARREN, O'Rourke, BERNIE SANDERS) and the '00s and '10s (Gillibrand, COREY BOOKER, Harris) a lot more than they like the '80s and '90s, which perhaps means no one cares about the Gen-X vote and almost certainly means PAULA ABDUL and OASIS needn't sit around waiting for invitations to the WHITE HOUSE anytime soon. Or, maybe, there's still a lane available for a grunge or daisy age hip-hop candidate. POSDNUOS, what's going on?... You will be shocked, shocked to learn there's tension between people who compose music for television and their music-supervisor bosses, and that the former don't automatically consider the latter to be their peers. VARIETY's JON BURLINGAME reports that the composers and songwriters in the TELEVISION ACADEMY are still peeved that music supervisors were allowed into their branch and given an EMMY AWARD category, and many don't think supervisors are qualified to vote for any of the other music Emmys, which they can do this year for the first time. It's just another version of the eternal battle between creative and suits, I get it, but in a world where both roles have traditionally been underappreciated and undervalued, it would be nice if they could keep that tension between themselves and work as allies in public, wouldn't it? They could then fight together for more important causes, like the music supervisors' gripe that showrunners are somehow getting nominated for music-supervisor awards... The book SPOTIFY UNTOLD has been optioned for a scripted TV series, which will hopefully feature a heavy-breathing STEVE JOBS character as a recurring role... What classical music can learn from a trance DJ... RIP LARRY TAYLOR and GEORGE "G.G." GUIDOTTI.